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Authors: Kathleen Drowne
ISBN-13: 9780814251423, ISBN-10: 0814251420
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: 1

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Author Biography: Kathleen Drowne

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Table of Contents

Introduction : prohibition and American literature, 1920-19331
1Remembering the culture of national prohibition13
2Outside the law : liquor providers of the prohibition era34
3These wild young people : drinking and youth culture67
4Hidden in plain sight : the drinking joints93
5"Let's stay in" : the prohibition-era house party129
Afterword : the legacies of national prohibition in American literature165

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